Hint: He was a radio announcer, grade B movie actor, card carrying democrat, and president of the Screen Actors' Guild.
And he was the oldest person ever to enter the office of the President, at just shy of 70, and served for 8 years!
Posted on 11/15/2006 8:39:52 AM PST by ConservativeMajority
Now that the 2006 midterm elections have almost all been decided, political observers are turning their attention toward the presidential sweepstakes in 2008. It will be the first race since 1952 that doesn’t have an incumbent president seeking re-election or vice-president looking for a promotion, leaving the field in both parties wide open. Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and John Kerry top the list of about a dozen Democrats considering a White House run and Mitt Romney, John McCain and Rudy Giuliani are the names most frequently talked about for the Republican nomination.
With the official end of the 1994 Republican Revolution coming just a week ago, some have been openly wondering if the architect of the Contract With America will return to the political stage to once again lead the conservative movement with a bid for the White House. After attending an event with Newt Gingrich last night, it appears that the former House Speaker is not running for president - he’s waiting to be asked to serve.
Gingrich was interviewed by a restrained Chris Matthews and revealed the depth and breadth of his knowledge of American history. Gingrich, once a college professor, lectured the audience about how leaders like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt might deal with today’s problems and political environment. Woven into his responses to the over-matched talk show host, was an unmistakable affirmation of conservative principles that were abandoned by the Republican Congressional leadership just deposed.
More striking was Gingrich’s outlook for the upcoming presidential campaigns. He suggested that the current lack of effective leadership in both parties is the result of negative campaigns that appeal to the lowest common denominator. Gingrich believes that real leaders will emerge when “things get bad enough” for Americans to stop responding to the politics of personal destruction and seek candidates with a strong, defined, inspirational message. The underlying premise is that those who seek power will be turned aside in favor of someone who seeks to lead a nation.
It is clear that Gingrich believes he is such a man, as do I. He’s not running for anything, but it seems that he is waiting for his country to call.
Your allegation is without base. Reagan was divorced, and many social conservatives voted for him. My concern for Newt is that he address (1) his work as Speaker in which he presided over a very poorly run 1998 campaign which let Clinton off the hook; and (2) his difficult personal life, well beyond his divorce.
I would never describe anyone as unclean, because with Christ all can be clean.
I should also add that I don't demand that my candidate be a professed Christian to gain my vote.
As I already explained, there's a difference in appointment positions and elected positions. Running Newt again would show that we want to repeat the same mistakes we've made in the past. Rummy was not elected.
I was at Davis Hills Elementary and still remember how depressed we all were that he lost. That was the first time I was aware of politics and began understanding that I was probably a Republican.
yeah well, maybe we nominate a 'moderate'...
Republicans got shellacked this month not becaude conservatism is dead-it was because they strayed so far from it...
Newt represents me more than Hastert or Frist or Guiliani or certainly) McCain
The main difference is that a person with a conscience feels guilt and often communicates shame when someone brings up their past misdeeds. The sociopath, however, denies they ever took place; or if they did, that they really hurt anyone. Just making the comparison...
LOL!!!
I love Newt, but the guy has a LOT of personal baggage. He almost makes Clinton look like an expert in maintaining a good marriage.
Newt belongs to CFR! I like him, but as far as I'm concerned, that's a huge reason to "just say NO to Newt." ;o)
Hint: He was a radio announcer, grade B movie actor, card carrying democrat, and president of the Screen Actors' Guild.
And he was the oldest person ever to enter the office of the President, at just shy of 70, and served for 8 years!
I would love to see Condoleezza Rice as president. However, as a resident of the Socialist Republic of Maryland, I was deeply shocked and horrified to see the treatment of the excellent Michael Steele in the last race, particularly the snubbing and ungracious behavior by other blacks, who regard conservatives as turncoats. It wasn't pretty.
It made me rethink whether our nation is really capable of doing the mature thing. I have newfound doubts, after seeing what was done to Steele, about Rice's candidacy in the strategic sense -- whether she has enough fire in her soft-spoken presentation to be regarded as a war leader and savior of a wobbling republic, as was the "iron lady" Margaret Thatcher.
Certainly, there is forgiveness in our ranks, as our election of former frat-boy Dubya clearly showed. It is the forgiveness of the swing voters that is the problem in such a divided electorate. You can be sure there will be no forgiveness from the Enemedia.
Sitting and waiting and the senior prom is about to begin.
LOL!!!
Yeah, and how about the Dimwits recycling George McGovern, Ramsey Clarke, Jimmy Cawtuh, Hill & Bill, Joan Baez, Ted Kennedy and John Kerry? About the only new faces on their radar screen are Osama Obama and Cindy ban Sheehan.
See post 173.
That's what everyone on this thread needs to understand. It's not enough to be good at the job: a viable candidate must be able to manage the Fifth Column effectively.
The press is operating like a third political party; they will never back Newt. Reagan was extraordinary in his acting-honed ability to override them at their own communications game. It would take another person similarly gifted. Intellect is not enough; presentation is very important. This is where Bush could not measure up, much as I love the guy and understood his verbal shorthand. He and I are from a similar walk of life and have a compatible frame of reference. Other ethnicities and subgroups simply could not understand the man.
With names like Newt, Trent and Lamar floating around...it's starting to feel like Groundhog day.
This is not a good sign.
The original post contained a "/s", which means "sarcasm" in FReeperspeak.
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